In Memory of Boy Telegraphist GEORGE BARNETT CULPIN, J/31710, H.M.S. "Defence", Royal Navy who died age 17 on 31 May 1916. Son of Henry Charles and Alice Maud Culpin, of Southend-on-Sea, Essex. Remembered with honour - CHATHAM NAVAL MEMORIAL

At the Battle of Jutland on May 31, 1916, Arbuthnot took Defence and her sister ships HMS Warrior and Black Prince to attack the light cruiser SMS Wiesbaden, which lay dead in the water between the opposing fleets. Brought under concentrated fire from Rear Admiral Paul Behncke's Third Battle Squadron, Defence sank with the loss of all her 893 crew at 1815.